Thursday, July 12, 2018

The Explorers' Club, № DCXXV

Operation AXIOM: The World War—The Second Battle of the Marne, Part I
Quentin Roosevelt (1897-1918), the youngest son & favorite of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States; he grew up in the White House, graduated from the Groton School, & attended Harvard University; a Nieuport 28 pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron, he was shot twice in the head in an aerial dogfight & crashed behind the German lines on 14 July 1918.






Lest we forget.

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